Foreign interference likely in Canada’s 2019 election, federal security agency warns GlobePolitics
Canada’s national cybersecurity agency says it is very likely Canadian voters will encounter foreign cyber influence before and during the fall federal election.
In its latest update on cyber threats to the country’s democratic process, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment says political parties, candidates and political staff continue to be “attractive targets.” Targeting voters has become the most common type of cyber threat activity against democratic processes across the world, CSE says, and those threats could mean manipulating information online and using cyber tools to influence voters’ opinions and behaviour.CSE said foreign adversaries have attempted to sway ideas and decisions of voters by promoting polarizing social and political issues and by bolstering one party over another.
The security body said that in 2018 half of all advanced democracies holding national elections were targeted by a cyber threat activity, about a three-fold increase from 2015, and CSE expects the trend to continue. The report notes that while elections around the world have continued to be targeted, Canada’s federal elections are primarily paper-based and Elections Canada has legal, procedural and information technology measures that protect against attempts to covertly change the official vote count.
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